Open build & test infrastructure

[Richard Bair]

Works for me!

On Oct 1, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Ben Evans wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For people at JavaOne - how does 1400 on Thursday work as a time for a
> physical meet?
> 
> Let's do this in a bar close to J1 venues, but not at JavaOne itself,
> so if local people who don't have J1 badges want to attend, they can.
> 
> Please RSVP if you want to come (or let me know if this is a bad slot
> & I should re-choose).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Guys, I'd love to be kept in the loop. Our current build situation in FX is far from ideal and with open sourcing the rest of our bits I have a big interest in making it dead easy to build and hack on FX from any IDE. I'm at J1 as well so if you have a meetup let me know :-)
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Richard
>> 
>> On Oct 1, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Steve Poole wrote:
>> 
>>> hi Ben - great to see this proposal.    I'm definitely interested and I'm at J1.
>>> 
>>> I'd like to see what we can do to get some common  build setup  documents published
>>> and to explore more about how developers who want to contribute can be sure their changes are "good" - where good means some level of build and test confidence across multiple platforms.
>>> 
>>> Everyone wants to do a good job when contributing but currently the barrier can be  high and generally stacked against them.
>>> 
>>> Lets get together if we can - its a great topic to discuss face to face.    I'm sure we can help reduce the barriers!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 1 Oct 2012, at 21:59, Ben Evans <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> In the last few months, the LJC (London Java Community) have been
>>>> running AdoptOpenJDK hack sessions - designed to get more developers
>>>> started with OpenJDK development.
>>>> 
>>>> Whilst we've been running the sessions, we've met a lot of people who
>>>> are interested in making the build and test of OpenJDK easier. It
>>>> seems that there's a lot of desire to improve things, and a lot of
>>>> knowledge and useful software held by various parties which they may
>>>> be interested in sharing.
>>>> 
>>>> For example, at the LJC we have some scripts used to build simple VMs
>>>> for teaching purposes, and we have heard that others have
>>>> complimentary software which could be contributed.
>>>> 
>>>> So, this post is to call attention to this area, put out a public call
>>>> for interest (and ask potential participants to speak up), and see if
>>>> there is critical mass - and what suitable next steps should be.
>>>> 
>>>> In particular - if people are interested & at JavaOne, please let me
>>>> know - let's try to organise & meet up whilst a large number of people
>>>> are physically in the same space.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Ben
>>>> 
>>> 
>>